Improvement in corn-huskers



UNITED S ATE PATENT OFFICEO' a. F. FRENCH, on NEW YORK, N. Y:

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-HUSKERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 47,710, dated May 16,1865.

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, E. F. FRENCH, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a newand Improved (Jorn-Husking Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descript( 11 thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, refere ice being bad to the accompanying drawings, f irming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is avertical section of m yinvention, taken in the line as m, Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a side view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts. A

This invention relates to a new and improved machine for huskin g corn of that class in which rollers are employed to effect the object. In the original machine of this kind the corn-husks are liable to wind around the rollers while the latter are stripping the husks from the ears, andthereby render the machine very inefiicient-a difficulty which is fully obviated by my improvement.

A represents a framing, in the upper part of which there is a box, B, having a roller, (1, at one end, directly underneath which thereis a roller, D, provided with longitudinal plates or flanges a. These rollers O D are designed for detaching the ears of corn from the stalks, and are the same as those previously used.

The stalks are placed on a feed-board, E, on the framin g, and pass between the rollers O D,

the detached ears fallin g into the box B. This box B has an inclined bottom, b, which admits of the discharge of the ears through an opening, 0, in the side of the box, the ears passing on or between rollers F F, which are rotated in the direction indicated by the arrows 1, and draw or strip the husks from the ears, the latter dropping 011' from the rollers, the axis of p which are in an inclined plane to admit of that result, as shown in Fig. 1.

Underneath each roller F there is an upright plate or scraper, G. The upper edges of these plates are serrated or notched, as shown at d, and they set. closely to the rollers and effectually prevent the husks from wrapping or winding around them, and thereby render the machine perfect in its operation.

I do not claim the rollers G D for separating or detaching the cars from the stalks, nor do I claim the stripping of the husks from the cars by means of rollers F F, for these devices have been previously used for the purpose; but

Letters Patent- The employment or use of the plates or scrapers G, in connection with the rollers F F, arranged and applied to operate substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

E. F. FRENOHJ. Witnesses M. M. LIVINGSTON, O. L. TOPLIFF.

I do claim as new and desire to secure by 

